138 BILSDALE AND SINNINGTON. 



T. Coverdale, of Kirbymoorside, undertook the 

 duties of Secretaryship, and once more things 

 began to look up. When he became Secretar}^ 

 the hunt owed the Bank £50, as well as having 

 an outstanding account of £48 for oats, but so 

 energetic w^as he, and so ably was he assisted by 

 a few friends, that at the end of his first year 

 of office he showed a credit balance of 9s. 



One of the best runs Mr. Kendall ever had 

 was in 1861, and so impressed had he been with 

 it that on his return home he wrote an account 

 of it on the fly-leaf of a novel when it was fresh 

 in his memory, thus giving that volume, which 

 was only of a moderate degree of merit, a value 

 which of itself it could never have possessed. 



" We met at Pickering," says he, '^and as the 

 hills were covered with snow and the ground in 

 some places was hard, not much sport was 

 expected. We trotted away to the far-famed 

 Haugh Wood where we soon unkennelled one of 

 the right sort on the east side of the covert. We 

 ran up the covert, across the Middle Ridge, and 

 over the west side and across the top of Grayson's 

 farm for Nova, and on to East Moor Plantation 

 (where he was headed), across to Cawthorn Down 

 and on to Aislaby Straights, and away for 

 Scarbrough Moor Plantations, across the lane for 

 Wrelton to Cawthorne, and away to Cass Hagg ; 

 across Cropton Lane and down to the foot of 

 Wrelton Clifl", over the hill into Stable's farm, 



